Herm Rohrig
Appearance
No. 8, 80 | |||||||||||||||
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Position: | Wingback, halfback | ||||||||||||||
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Born: | Mason City, Iowa, U.S. | March 19, 1918||||||||||||||
Died: | July 14, 2002 Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. | (aged 84)||||||||||||||
Height: | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||||
Weight: | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||||
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High school: | Lincoln (NE) | ||||||||||||||
College: | Nebraska | ||||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1941 / round: 6 / pick: 46 | ||||||||||||||
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Herman Francis "Stumpy" Rohrig (March 19, 1918 – July 14, 2002) was an American football player who played professionally in the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Green Bay Packers in the sixth round of the 1941 NFL draft and would play three seasons with the team.[1][2] Following his retirement as a player, he worked as an official and a scout in the NFL and serve as an alternate field judge for Super Bowl I. He also was a supervisor of officials for the Big Ten Conference, mentoring future NFL referee Jerry Markbreit and numerous others who reached the professional ranks.
A graduate of Lincoln High School in Lincoln, Nebraska, Rohrig was inducted into the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "1941 NFL Draft Listing". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
- ^ "Herm Rohrig NFL & AFL Football Statistics". Pro-Football-Reference.com. March 19, 1918. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
- ^ "Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation". Nebhalloffame.org. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
Categories:
- 1918 births
- 2002 deaths
- American football halfbacks
- Green Bay Packers players
- Keesler Field Fliers football players
- National Football League officials
- Nebraska Cornhuskers football players
- People from Mason City, Iowa
- Players of American football from Lincoln, Nebraska
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American football running back, 1910s birth stubs